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By Amir Vera and Alexander Pineda, CNN Joel Alvarado was 6 years old when his mother pulled him aside and asked him to be discreet as he was getting ready to meet his grandmother in Puerto Rico. “She made me aware that my grandmother was much darker than my other relatives, especially from her side

By Dakin Andone, Alison Kosik and Sarah Jorgensen, CNN Gabby Petito was remembered as a kind, loving and adventurous young woman on Sunday, when her family, friends and complete strangers gathered in Holbrook, New York, on Long Island to pay their respects. One week after his daughter’s remains were found in a national forest in

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN In the face of political turmoil following the assassination of the country’s president, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people and a tropical storm, Haitians are fleeing their country. More than 10,000 migrants from Haiti converged on the US border at Del Rio, Texas, this week and up to

By Christina Maxouris, CNN Over the summer, Gabby Petito set out with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, to travel across the country in her white Ford van, planning to hit national parks throughout the western United States. For the past year, the young woman regularly posted pictures with Laundrie on her Instagram account, sharing last May

By Mallika Kallingal, CNN Noman is like any other 10-year-old boy. He loves pizza, chicken nuggets and ice cream — chocolate is his favorite flavor. He likes playing on his tablet, learning to play football at school in Florida, and going to the park with his dad. But just a few weeks ago, Noman was

By Kristina Sgueglia and Dakin Andone, CNN A federal appeals court has issued a temporary injunction against a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for New York City educators set to go into effect early next week, temporarily blocking enforcement while the case is sent to a three-judge circuit court panel for review. The judge’s ruling Friday means

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Things got a little spooky after a haunted house actor stabbed an 11-year-old boy in the foot at a fairground in Ohio in an incident the business says was an accident. The child, who was about to begin walking through 7 Floors of Hell — a popular horror attraction in Berea

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN The oldest polar bear in human care in North America died Friday, according to the Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin. Snow Lilly “was humanely euthanized yesterday due to declining health,” the zoo announced Saturday on Facebook. She was 36 years old. The median life expectancy for a polar in human care

By David Williams and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN When picture day came around at Mason Peoples’ elementary school in Las Vegas, the first grader was ready — he’d picked out his favorite shirt, which happened to match his mask, and practiced his best smile that morning for his mom. “My son actually lost four teeth within

By Dakin Andone, CNN Three dismembered bodies — including a child — were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth, Texas, this week, according to the city’s police department. The bodies were “burned and heavily dismembered,” police said in a news release on Friday, adding there were “body parts unaccounted for.” Authorities have tentatively